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How To Move OS X Time Machine Backups To A New Disk

Started by sfoskett · 7 months ago

Well, that happened pretty quickly! After upgrading the internal hard drive on my MacBook Pro to 320 GB, I moved the 120 GB disk Apple shipped with the machine to my Verbatim SmartDisk FireWire+USB enclosure to use as a Time Machine backup target. Despite applying some tricks ... Continue reading »

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ampressman
4 months ago

Great advice - thanks. In my case, going from a 500 GB drive to a 2 TB drive, it took the Disk Utility seven (!!) hours to copy and and verify the data. Yipes. But all worked fine after that. I wrote it up on my blog at http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=716

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Locksmith Madison
4 months ago

Good advice. Mac OSX rocks.

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Seb
1 week ago

That was easy - thanks for the step by step tutorial, it works great!!!!

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John Baughman
1 week ago

Microsoft missed the boot on disk formats!

After remounting and selecting Erase Destination, it's working! Awesome, I love Macs!

Thanks for the tutorial!

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